Professors

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Dr. A. Bassi (abassi@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 

Research Interests:

  • Micro-algal applications for clean water and value recovery
  • Integrated technologies for water refining and nutrient and energy recovery using biological systems
  • Bio-separations and biosensors

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/bassi_a/index.html

 

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Dr. M. Dagnew (mdagnew@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Advancing wastewater treatment processes and technologies
  • Water and nutrient recovery from point and non-point sources
  • Urban water infrastructure
  • Numerical and data-based process modeling
  • Drinking water in first nation and small communities 

For further information: Martha Dagnew - CEE - Western University (uwo.ca)

 

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 Dr. C.T. DeGroot (cdegroo5@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Computational fluid dynamics modelling of wastewater unit processes
  • Optical simulations of UV photoreactors and microalgae photobioreactors
  • Uncertainty/sensitivity analysis of wastewater biokinetic models
  • Wastewater-based epidemiology
  • Physics of gas-liquid mass transfer
  • Mechanics of active fluid suspensions

 For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/mechanical/faculty/degroot_c/index.html

 

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Dr.  H. Gomaa (hgomaa@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Photocatalytic membrane reactors (PMR)
  • Preparation of Pickering emulsions using metal organic frameworks (MOF)
  • Functionalized membranes applications using MOF
  • Controlled release of drugs using magnetic nanoparticles (MNP)
  • Oscillatory motion process intensification
  • Supported liquid membranes (SLM) in bio-separation
  • Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes (EDBP)

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/gomaa_h/index.html

 

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Dr. J. E. Herrera (jherrer3@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Heterogeneous catalysis for environmental engineering
  • Lead chemistry in drinking water distribution
  • Aquatic chemistry

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/herrera_j/index.html

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Dr. Erin Huner (ehuner@uwo.ca)

Ivey Business School, Western University

Research Interests:

  • Director, Culture and Inclusion at Ivey Business Schoo
  • Systems and policies where they have been historically marginalized
  • Building systems, institutions and policies that actively seek, and make space for, the full and inclusive participation of diverse community members
  • Expertise in Implementation Science and Evaluation to implement and design research and programming focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Gender-Based-Violence (GBV); student skill acquisition; and student mental health and wellbeing

For more information:https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/about/edi/edi-advisory-board/erin-huner/

 

 

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Dr. K. Kreyman (kkreyman@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Surface water hydrology
  • Marine physics
  • Data analysis
  • Laboratory and mathematical modeling environmental systems

 

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Dr. Geneviève Metson (gmetson@uwo.ca)

Faculty of Social Science, Department of Geography and Environment

Research Interests:

  • Anthropogenic phosphorus and nitrogen flows
  • Sustainable food, waste and sanitation systems for effective nutrient management
  • Urban ecological infrastructure (e.g. urban agriculture) and nutrient dynamics
  • Transdisciplinary and systems approaches

For further information: https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/people/faculty/metson_genevieve.html

 

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  Dr. A. Wren Montgomery (amontg@uwo.ca)

Ivey School of Business, Department of Sustainability and General Management

Research Interests:

  • Environmental and social organizing and entrepreneurship
  • Climate change
  • Water crisis
  • Soil degradation
  • Social justice

For further information: http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/directory/a-wren-montgomery/

 

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Dr. M. R. Najafi (mnajafi7@uwo.ca)

Wester Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Hydroclimatic extremes
  • Climate change impact assessment
  • Detection and attribution
  • Infrastructure risk and resilience
  • Regional frequency analysis
  • Multi-modeling and uncertainty assessment
  • Downscaling and bias correction
  • Hydrologic forecasting
  • Remote sensing
  • Machine learning
  • Physical/numerical modeling and design

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/najafi_m/research.html

 

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Dr. G. Nakhla (gnakhla@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 

Research Interests:

  • Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment
  • Treatment plant optimization and troubleshooting
  • Biological nutrient removal
  • Anaerobic digestion of biosolids
  • Biological conversion of wastes to hydrogen and methane
  • Resource recovery from wastewater

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/nakhla_g/research.html

 

 Dr. F. Olea-Popelka

Dr. F. Olea-Popelka (foleapop@uwo.ca)

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research Interests:

  • Veterinary Epidemiologist
  • One Health and the link between environmental, animal, and human health
  • Zoonoses, tuberculosis, rabies

 For further information: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/pathol/people/faculty/olea_popelka_francisco.html

 

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Dr. Sabina Rakhimbekova (srakhimb@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Contaminant fate and transport
  • Groundwater-surfacewater interactions
  • Water resources under climate change and anthropogenic development
  • Student engagement and pedagogy innovation

For further information: http://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil//people/faculty.html

 

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Dr. A. K. Ray (aray@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
  • Solar photocatalysis for water treatment
  • Enhanced oxidation of micropollutants by ferrates, Fe(VI)
  • Novel water treatment reactor design
  • Mathematical modeling and optimization

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/ray_a/

 

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Dr. M. B. Ray (mray@eng.uwo.ca; mbhowmic@uwo.ca)                                                        

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Novel applications of adsorption, coagulation, and membrane separation
  • Advanced oxidation processes for organics removal
  • Enhanced anaerobic digestion
  • Recovery of resources from wastes
  • Environmental modeling

For further details: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/ray_m/index.html

 

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Dr. L. Rehmann (lrehmann@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Bio-fuels and value added chemicals through biochemical conversion processes
  • Effluent toxicity

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/rehmann_l/index.html

 

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Dr. C. E. Robinson (crobinson@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Research Interests:

  • Groundwater-surface water interactions
  • Fate and transport of contaminants
  • Groundwater and reactive transport modeling
  • Low impact development stormwater management technologies

For further information:  https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/robinson_c/research.html

 

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Dr. I. Shah (ishah5@uwo.ca)

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, Environmental Planning & Regulations Unit

Research Interests:

  • Water resources management
  • Floodplain management
  • Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
  • Low impact development
  • Climate change resiliency
  • Stormwater quality

 

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Dr. S. Simonovic (simonovic@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Water resource management
  • Resilient complex systems
  • Energy, climate change and infrastructure

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/simonovic_s/index.html

 

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Dr. C. Xu (cxu6@uwo.ca)                                                                           

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Thermal technologies for waste treatment for bio-energy and bio-fuels
  • Production of high-value bio-based chemicals and materials from biomass
  • Catalysis and catalysts development
  • Recovery of organics or heavy metals from industrial waste water or soil remediation

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/ibl/